ehealth Spring 2006

Low or declining vision affects a person’s entire life, from performing routine daily tasks to coping with a changing self-image. But, it doesn’t have to mean the end of an independent and satisfying life.

While there might not always be a cure for patients with advanced life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses, UAB’s new Palliative and Comfort Care Unit hopes to offer them and their families healing relief and support.

No matter where patients are at UAB Hospital, a new portable cardiac telemetry system can keep constant watch over their health.

The most important critics—Birmingham-area residents—rate UAB Hospital as one of the most preferred, respected and highest-quality healthcare providers in the country, according to a recent consumer survey.

Female incontinence and other pelvic floor disorders are extremely common; still, many women might not seek treatment because they are embarrassed or assume they just have to live with these problems.

The heart beats 24/7, constantly lub-dubbing away to send blood coursing throughout the body. Most of the time, we don’t even notice it.

Endometriosis can cause pain and even infertility—but women have options for treating this common disorder.

The new U.S. Department of Agriculture food guide pyramid is up and running—but what does it really mean for you and your family?

When Tom Lynch arrived at work the morning of Dec. 9, 2004, he anticipated a routine, busy schedule as Director of Administration and Finance for UAB’s Division of Cardiovascular Disease. Feeling healthy only a week before his 41st birthday, he had no reason to suspect it would be the day he would come dangerously close to death while sitting behind his desk.

Colon cancer is a “silent” disease, one that usually announces itself only after it has become firmly entrenched and very dangerous.

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